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co-operation—especially Drs. Smith, White, and Ford—as without
their aid it would have been impossible to stop the epidemic
so promptly.
Diphtheria.
22. There were two cases of Diphtheria notified during the
3 months, both of which resulted in death.
23. One was in the child of a caretaker at a house in Winn
Road, Burnt Ash, where there was nothing particularly wrong
about the drains.
24. The other was in a child at Park Farm Cottage. Here
the arrangements were very insanitary, but have since been put
right.
Puerperal Fever.
25. A death occurred from this disease in December, at
Pelham Terrace, of a woman removed from a cottage at Hayworth's
Brickfield, Now Eltham; fitly described, by Dr. Sturge
who reported the case, as a "shanty."
26. The surronndings were very bad. There was a middenprivy
close to the back door. The slops ran into a foul open
ditch 30 feet away. Two pig-styes were at about the same
distance. A large shed, in which upwards of 60 head of poultry
(geese, ducks, and fowl) were kept, adjoined the cottage. So
the yard must have been thoroughly fouled with excrement.